Glasgow Brought Back the Mile Because Anyone Can Understand It. It Cut the Race Anyone Could Run.
The Commonwealth marathon had survived every Games since 1930. A Scottish Labour MSP proposed a self-financing way to keep it in Glasgow, and his motion fell without being tested.
Track and Field
Glasgow Has Scrapped the 1,500m. The Commonwealth Mile Returns Saturday After 60 Years.
Josh Kerr runs in his home city nine days after his 3:42.66 world record, alongside Jake Wightman and Neil Gourley. No woman has ever contested a Commonwealth mile.
Track and Field
Cooper Lutkenhaus, 17, Completes a U.S. 800m Sweep in New York
The Texas high schooler ran 1:43.48 at Icahn Stadium on Sunday to add the outdoor national title to the indoor crown he won in March. The result may still not be enough to put him in the field for track and field’s richest meet in September.
Track and Field
What Is the World Athletics Ultimate Championship?
The sport’s new season finale debuts in Budapest in September, with $10 million in prize money and a field limited to champions.
Track and Field
Jakob Ingebrigtsen Will Return From Achilles Surgery at the European Championships
The Norwegian, a six-time European champion, has entered the championships in Birmingham, which open Aug. 10. It will be his first race since Achilles surgery in February, and he has not said which distance he will run.
Jessy Carveth
Katharina Hartmuth Breaks the Bob Graham Round Record, Paced by the Woman Who Set It
Hartmuth covered the 42 fells of the English Lake District in 14:11:58 on Friday, cutting 22 minutes and 28 seconds off a mark Beth Pascall set on the same date in 2020.
Trail and Ultras
Badwater 135 Returns to Death Valley Without a Defending Champion
The 135-mile race across Death Valley starts Monday under a new 45-hour cutoff, and neither of last year’s winners is on the start list. Ashley Paulson, who beat the entire field in 2023, headlines the returners.
News
Every Track Final From The 2026 US Championships, Result By Result
Noah Lyles ran a world-leading 9.79 and Sha’Carri Richardson took the women’s 100m, but the 2026 USATF Outdoor Championships at Icahn Stadium had a title in every event. Here are the full track finals, top eight in each, with the field, para, and combined events left out.
Track and Field
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